Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Nature is wont to hide herself.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.
We should try to be happy, just to set an example.
It is better to trust in ability than in luck.
It's too late to ask for advice when the danger comes.
Youth must be mastered not by force but by reason.
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
The years teach much which the days never know.
The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different.
In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Few men have been admired by their own households.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Man is what he eats.
Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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